Hard News
This is what journalists call the opening paragraph where they introduce who, what, when, where, how, and why.
What is a lede?
This comes at the top of a feature news article.
What is a catchy headline?
At the beginning of Persepolis, Marji believes she will grow up to be this.
What is a prophet?
This is the year the revolution began.
What is 1979?
This woman was killed in custody, beginning the current Iranian protests.
Who is Mahsa Amini?
This is the purpose of hard news.
What is 'to inform?'
A feature news article focuses on a ___________ interest story.
What is "human" interest?
This is the political party Marji's family belongs to.
What is communism?
This was a change women had to make in their clothing after the revolution.
What is the veil?
In Iran, this is what blood represents.
What is "martyrs?"
This is the shape used to describe the structure of a hard news article.
What is an inverted pyramid?
This is the term that describes the approach with which the journalist explores their topic.
What is an angle?
This is the first person Marji goes to a protest with.
Who is Mehri, Marji's maid?
This is the leader who stepped into power after the revolution.
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
This major sporting event became a platform for the Iranian protests.
What is the World Cup?
This is the style of writing a hard news article should use.
What are short, simple sentences?
While hard news is written only to inform, feature news may be written to educate, persuade, or even to ___________.
What is entertain?
What is a key?
This is the theater that the Shah burned, killing 400 people inside.
What is the Rex Cinema?
This is the reason the morality police gave for arresting Mahsa Amini.
What is wearing her veil improperly?
This is why the least important details go at the end of a hard news article.
What is cutting the end of an article before printing?
What is informal?
Anoosh gave Marji two of these to remember him by.
What is a bread swan?
These things were banned after the revolution, when Iran became an Islamic republic (name 3).
What are alcohol, music, videos, dancing, cards, parties, women attending university, integrated schools, anything "western?"
These are the symbols of the current protests (3).
What are blood, cutting hair, and "women, life, freedom?"